Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 23:02:15 +0400 (MSD)
From: "Alexander V. Lukyanov" <lav AT video DOT yars DOT free DOT net>
Message-Id: <199606131902.XAA04130@video.yars.free.net>
To: acmq AT coe DOT ufrj DOT br, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Behavior of fscanf in V2

> while (fscanf(archive,"%s",str1)!=EOF) {...}
> 
> to read all the nonblank lines in a file. "str1" receives the first item
> as a string of characters, and is used to define what are the other items
> that are read by other fscanf statements.
> When the end of the file is reached, fscanf returns EOF and the loop
> terminates.
> In djgpp V2 this is apparently not happening. fscanf reads again and again
> an empty line after the last item read...
> Exactly the same code works with the other compilers.
> Is this some bug, or am I doing something "nonstandard"?

Yes, this is a known bug. If you want to try fixed version of stdio
(somewhat beta), download modified source files from
http://video.yars.free.net/~lav/djgpp/modified.zip

> Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz